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Pittcon® is changing rapidly. After decades where separation science including GC/MS and LC/MS dominated the meeting, a report by Dr. Matt Wilkinson in this issue demonstrates that optical
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Over the past decade, advances in genomic- and proteomic-based research techniques and instrumentation have resulted in major breakthroughs in the elucidation of the structure and function of disease ... read more

For gas chromatography (GC), the big news at Pittcon® 2012 was the absence of Agilent and PerkinElmer. This was a consequence of an overall downsizing caused by the “six-year effect” where the cycles ... read more

Of the 979 exhibitors at Pittcon®
2011, held March 13–18 in
Atlanta, GA, 115 were first-time
exhibitors, and more than 200
identified themselves as having something to do with spectroscopy, from ... read more

Pittcon 2011 was held March 13–18, 2011 at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, GA. The exhibition displayed an assortment of laboratory products, including anything from small plastic ... read more

Plate assays (1536-well) that require washing (i.e., enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays [ELISAs] and cell-based), are not routinely implemented in high-throughput screening laboratories due to the ... read more

The basic concept behind high-throughput screening (HTS) is a numbers game: If one has the technical ability to test thousands upon thousands of potential drug compounds against a specific target, it ... read more